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Florence Kingston, the Newport News Development Director, has overseen some of the city's largest projects: City Center at Oyster Point, Newport News Shipbuilding's Downtown Apprentice School and major company expansions. She dishes on her 34-year...

A woman tried to bring a loaded semi-automatic handgun onto an airplane at the Norfolk International Airport Wednesday, an official said.
The weapon, which was loaded with seven bullets, including one in its chamber, was detected in the Virginia...

Passengers from Norfolk International Airport have more nonstop flight options for Chicago, Detroit, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., in late March and early April.
The airport added eight more flights because of increased seasonable...

Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport's finances weathered the turmoil around the People Express collapse, its first financial report since evicting the company completely off airport premises shows.
In fact, the airport's doing a better...

Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport's finances weathered the turmoil around the People Express collapse, its first financial report since evicting the company completely off airport premises shows.
In fact, the airport's doing a better...

The pilot of a plane that crash-landed in the Norfolk Botanical Garden earlier this month, killing all three on board, tried twice to land at Norfolk International Airport after attempting to do so in Suffolk first, according to a preliminary report...

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When People Express announced that it planned to bring low-cost commercial air service to Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport, we did not hide our excitement.
At the time we hoped the new carrier would take up some of the slack left when...

Peninsula officials are still trying to woo air service to New York and Boston, but the federal grant used to launch People Express' short-lived effort is used up and no longer available.
Airport officials and People Express haven't communicated in...

Three people, including an alumnus of the College of William and Mary, were killed when their plane crashed in the Norfolk Botanical Garden Wednesday morning, according to Virginia State Police.
The plane was found at about 7:20 a.m. in the...

Farewell to a friendCarol Capo was a woman with strong opinions and a talent for expressing them in ways that could convince, provoke, clarify and educate. For 10 years she served on the Daily Press Editorial Board, first giving voice to the...

A Virginia Beach woman was cited on a weapons charge for bringing a loaded handgun past the security checkpoint at the Norfolk International Airport Tuesday, a TSA official said.
The woman was escorting her mother to the gate when a TSA officer...

Airline travelers are going nowhere fast because of the blizzard bearing down on the Northeast. By early Monday evening, more than 6,700 U.S. flights through Tuesday had already been scrubbed, according to tracking service FlightAware.com. Most were to or...

People Express, the startup airline that used a public subsidy to briefly fly from the Peninsula to New York and Boston, is being evicted from its rent-free offices at Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport.And nearly four months after People...

2014 started with high hopes for more passenger options at Newport News-Williamsburg International Airport, but ended with the loss of three low-fare carriers: the fledgling People Express, Allegiant Air and Frontier Airlines.
The airport had been trying...

People Express still is working to restart its suspended service at Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport, company chief executive Jeffrey Erickson told a closed-door meeting of the Peninsula Airport Commission on Wednesday.
But there's still...

With peak holiday air travel season approaching, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials are reminding Hampton Roads travelers of its pre-screening services.
For a $85 fee, area travelers can speed through the screening process at most...

Buying and giving"Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reach for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized — there had to be another way!" — Frank Costanza, in a famous...

Frontier Airlines to leaveFrontier Airlines will stop serving Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport on Jan. 6 in the second blow in two months to the airport's efforts to boost flight connections for Peninsula travelers. The airline's...

Frontier Airlines will stop serving Newport News-Williamsburg International Airport on Jan. 6 in the second blow in two months to the airport's efforts to boost flight connections for Peninsula travelers.
The airline's decision is part of a major shift...